To quote Forest Gump, “Stupid is as stupid does.” Weren’t we all back in the day? Well, at least those of us old enough to have survived the perils of un-government regulated childhood will remember things we did that should only be spoken about in secret circles.
If necessity is the ‘mother of invention’, then surely boredom is the father of ‘OH MY GOD, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!’
In the mid 60’s, in a world dominated by black & white TV and a couple of rock and roll AM radio stations, a few of us played with amateur radiobut daylight conditions were often poor, forcing us to seek entertainment outdoors.
DID YOU KNOW that a plastic paint drip cloth ~9ft x 12ft can be converted into a hot air balloon? Simply lay it on the ground, bring the long edges together in the center and seal them with a continuous length of Scotch Tapemaking a deflated cylinder. Bundle one end together tightly with rubber bands to seal it. Wrap the other end around your mom’s car exhaust and start the engine. The bag will fill with warm air Then remove and seal it with more rubber bands and release it and watch this awkward bubble float about.
BUT DID YOU KNOW that this balloon will rise much more rapidly and far higher, when filled with natural gas? We disconnected the main gas line to the home heating system, jury-rigged a garden hose to the outdoors and presto a balloon that is now aviation worthy. But hard to see as it rose out of sight.
BUT, DID YOU KNOW that if you take your mom’s roll of tin foil ( yes, tin back then) and secured it to the tail of the balloon, that your could track it for a much greater distance?
BUT, DID YOU KNOW that the radar at the Alameda Naval Air Station could detect a 20 foot long piece of tin foil floating above the Oakland Hills?
AND, DO YOU KNOW how it feels to see two jets get scrambled from the Air Base to do a reconnaissance on your new created UFO?
Talk about positive feedback !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Chinese friend told me to cut out sugary drinks (Pepsi/fruit juices) if you have congestion. Dairy is not a problem. 180 from what I learned but experimentation confirmed it for a study sample of one.
(And for a cold don't take vitamin C until you have recovered, but that's a virus infection rather than a bacterial sinusitis.)
It seems that I will have to believe you as I can't access Mein Kampf in this jurisdiction -all I get is "This material has been deemed to be inappropriate, your IP number has been logged".
Growing up in the UK on a diet of entertainment from the USA I always looked forward to the time that I too could enjoy Hershey's fine product.
Later on in life I got to experience this delicacy, bit into it and almost spat it out thinking that it must have gone off. Later on I learned that the rancid taste was actually intentional, so I guess that tastes differ -probably formed in the formative years.
But you are right, if you were subjected to Cadbury's chocolate or most of the UK standard fare it too was pretty dire.
I don't know how widespread this is now in the EU, but in Holland the cocoa solids percentage has to be on the wrapper. 70% cacao is pretty good and affordable. Perhaps this is what we should demand: "Put what you like in it, but for the privilege of bringing it to the market you have to be honest and tell us what it is you are selling".
Nah! We are in no position to demand anything, we are just lowly consumers. "Know your place!"
--Caution: this post may contain sarcasm and ground-off axe parts. Do not consume if allergic.
Somebody go so annoyed with this that they wrote a wrapper to intercept the calls to the AOSS emulation layer to fix the seemingly trivial re-opening of the already open sound device. Look for 'skype_dsp_hijacker' http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux. html Which leads to the closed source criticism.. But how many open source programs have been sold for $2.5B?
It now works fine and I've just had a very enjoyable conference chat with family in Australia and the UK, while here in the USA.
I recall a few years back of hearing the hypothesis: "Combining two parts of zero information resulted in negative information."
It went something like: "If we know nothing about a subject, then do both of us together know less?" (Discussing electric brakes on a trailer.) Tom & Ray Magliozzi -NPR's Car Talk guys.
Maybe the experiment is still running -the real 'slashdot effect'
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Can I interest you in some Mrs. Malaprop insurance while you at it?
From an (understandably) anonymous posting on http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/readerschoice/4311611/When-kids-really-had-fun-with-science
To quote Forest Gump, “Stupid is as stupid does.” Weren’t we all back in the day? Well, at least those of us old enough to have survived the perils of un-government regulated childhood will remember things we did that should only be spoken about in secret circles.
If necessity is the ‘mother of invention’, then surely boredom is the father of ‘OH MY GOD, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!’
In the mid 60’s, in a world dominated by black & white TV and a couple of rock and roll AM radio stations, a few of us played with amateur radiobut daylight conditions were often poor, forcing us to seek entertainment outdoors.
DID YOU KNOW that a plastic paint drip cloth ~9ft x 12ft can be converted into a hot air balloon? Simply lay it on the ground, bring the long edges together in the center and seal them with a continuous length of Scotch Tapemaking a deflated cylinder. Bundle one end together tightly with rubber bands to seal it. Wrap the other end around your mom’s car exhaust and start the engine. The bag will fill with warm air Then remove and seal it with more rubber bands and release it and watch this awkward bubble float about.
BUT DID YOU KNOW that this balloon will rise much more rapidly and far higher, when filled with natural gas? We disconnected the main gas line to the home heating system, jury-rigged a garden hose to the outdoors and presto a balloon that is now aviation worthy. But hard to see as it rose out of sight.
BUT, DID YOU KNOW that if you take your mom’s roll of tin foil ( yes, tin back then) and secured it to the tail of the balloon, that your could track it for a much greater distance?
BUT, DID YOU KNOW that the radar at the Alameda Naval Air Station could detect a 20 foot long piece of tin foil floating above the Oakland Hills?
AND, DO YOU KNOW how it feels to see two jets get scrambled from the Air Base to do a reconnaissance on your new created UFO? Talk about positive feedback !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Chinese friend told me to cut out sugary drinks (Pepsi/fruit juices) if you have congestion. Dairy is not a problem. 180 from what I learned but experimentation confirmed it for a study sample of one. (And for a cold don't take vitamin C until you have recovered, but that's a virus infection rather than a bacterial sinusitis.)
Ceramic capacitors can squeal. Probably the power supply.
Spitting Image thought it was fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDlj0jBtYmQ - back in '85
Please, we prefer "existentially challenged" thank you.
It seems that I will have to believe you as I can't access Mein Kampf in this jurisdiction -all I get is "This material has been deemed to be inappropriate, your IP number has been logged".
Growing up in the UK on a diet of entertainment from the USA I always looked forward to the time that I too could enjoy Hershey's fine product.
Later on in life I got to experience this delicacy, bit into it and almost spat it out thinking that it must have gone off. Later on I learned that the rancid taste was actually intentional, so I guess that tastes differ -probably formed in the formative years.
But you are right, if you were subjected to Cadbury's chocolate or most of the UK standard fare it too was pretty dire.
I don't know how widespread this is now in the EU, but in Holland the cocoa solids percentage has to be on the wrapper. 70% cacao is pretty good and affordable. Perhaps this is what we should demand: "Put what you like in it, but for the privilege of bringing it to the market you have to be honest and tell us what it is you are selling".
Nah! We are in no position to demand anything, we are just lowly consumers. "Know your place!"
--Caution: this post may contain sarcasm and ground-off axe parts. Do not consume if allergic.
Are we still on the topic of unlockable content?
Hey! You are wrong about the sheep -he buys them himself.
Somebody go so annoyed with this that they wrote a wrapper to intercept the calls to the AOSS emulation layer to fix the seemingly trivial re-opening of the already open sound device. Look for 'skype_dsp_hijacker' http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux. html Which leads to the closed source criticism.. But how many open source programs have been sold for $2.5B?
It now works fine and I've just had a very enjoyable conference chat with family in Australia and the UK, while here in the USA.
I recall a few years back of hearing the hypothesis: "Combining two parts of zero information resulted in negative information."
It went something like: "If we know nothing about a subject, then do both of us together know less?" (Discussing electric brakes on a trailer.)
Tom & Ray Magliozzi -NPR's Car Talk guys.
Maybe the experiment is still running -the real 'slashdot effect'